Lobbying to Save Lives in Texas Prisons

It'll cost $500 million to get A/C in prisons

"...an air-conditioned prison to Lane Murray, one of many Texas prisons with no A/C, where temperatures this summer have..."

Aug. 25, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Texas Prisons Are Cooking People Alive. Are We Okay With That?

Part 1 in a series about heat in prison

"...is facing the same crisis as other prisoners across Texas in this summer's historic heat. With temperatures soaring to..."

Aug. 11, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Suicides in Texas Prisons Have Dramatically Increased

Brooklyn Hogrell’s mother says our prison agency failed her

"...is part of a disturbing trend. Data from the Texas Justice Initiative shows that prison suicides in the state..."

June 14, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Texas Prisons as Bad as Iraq

"...photographs could have easily come from inside our own Texas prisons. Most people don't know that there is no..."

May 28, 2004 Postmarks

COVID’s Toll on Texas Inmates Among the Worst in the Nation

LBJ School study details dismal infection, death rates

"...Nine of the approximately 200 inmates in Texas prisons who have died from COVID-19 in recent months..."

Nov. 17, 2020 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Justice Department Begins Phase-Out of Private Prisons

Five Texas prisons currently under contract with federal government

"...The Federal Bureau of Prisons will "decline to renew the contract or substantially reduce..."

Aug. 26, 2016 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Advocates Sue Texas Over Prisoners Being “Cooked To Death”

Filmmaker Rick Linklater joins the call for action

"...Spring is almost over. Soon, tens of thousands of Texas inmates in prisons without air conditioning will begin suffering..."

April 23, 2024 News Post by Brant Bingamon

Amid Record Heat, Texas Locks Prisoners Down, Reducing Shower Access

Advocates feel decision is retaliation

"...their bodies in cells that are not air-conditioned, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced Sept. 6 its decision..."

Sept. 7, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

First Layoffs in Texas Tribune History Raise Questions About Future of Texas News

Still unclear why criminal justice coverage was first to go

"...After the bombshell news Wednesday that The Texas Tribune had laid off 11 people – an engineer,..."

Aug. 25, 2023 News Post by Lina Fisher

Opinion: Incarcerated Women in Texas Need to Be Heard

A writer in her eighth year of solitary confinement laments widespread neglect of the experiences of women in prison

"...In December of last year, the Texas Civil Rights Project released a 20-plus-page report titled “Solitary..."

March 29, 2024 Column by Kwaneta Harris

The State Claims No One Is Dying From 120+° F Heat in Prisons

Part 2: The state’s response to the prison heat crisis

"...of heat that inmates in two-thirds of the state's prisons – about 95,000 people – have been enduring this..."

Aug. 18, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

The Hottest Race in Texas

The David Fisher-Todd Staples Senate Contest in East Texas Will Decide the Fate of the State Senate -- and the U.S. House

"...personal political event was in progress up in East Texas. In the auditorium of Frankston High School in Anderson..."

Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Michael King

For Texas Prisoners, COVID-19 Shouldn’t Be a Death Sentence

Criminal justice advocates warn of outbreaks behind bars

"...the coronavirus pandemic became a crisis in the state's prisons. Now, COVID-19 is racing through the system and advocates..."

May 15, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Tuberculosis Has Broken Out in Texas Prison System

Advocates and families say there are dozens of active cases

"...The Texas Department of Criminal Justice acknowledges that tuberculosis has broken..."

July 26, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Sen. Kirk Watson on the 86th Texas Legislature

“In Texas, we don’t focus on what our needs are; we focus on what we want to pay”

"...fifth term representing most of the city in the Texas Senate. His committee posts have included Finance, Health &..."

Jan. 4, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

Texas Inmates Strike for Better Conditions

Inmates at seven state prisons have refused to leave their cells

"...On Monday, April 4, inmates at seven Texas state prisons launched a working strike to combat crude..."

April 6, 2016 News Post by Chase Hoffberger

Inside Texas' Angels of Death, Who Refuse Hundreds of Death Row Pleas but May Expedite Daniel Perry Pardon

How the Board of Pardons and Paroles runs its ship

"...set up a meeting with the chairman of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, the obscure state agency..."

May 12, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

A Change in Direction for the Texas Civil Rights Project

New leadership doesn't sit well with the old guard

"...This spring, the board of trustees for the Texas Civil Rights Project, a community lawyering organization known for..."

Aug. 3, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez

Texas Is 'Big, Hot, Cheap and Right'

Erica Grieder's ode to the Lone Star State

"..."One of the fundamental truths about Texas is that, although the state is genuinely sui generis,..."

May 1, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Rick Noriega's Speech to the Texas Democratic Convention

Blasts Cornyn, calls for end to Iraq War.

"...is the speech Rick Noriega just gave to the Texas Democratic Party Convention. (No, I didn't type it in..."

June 6, 2008 News Post by Lee Nichols

HBO Docuseries God Save Texas Offers a Personal Lens on the Lone Star State in Crisis

Texas filmmakers confront hard truths about home

"...Texas is a place that is often misunderstood by those..."

Jan. 28, 2024 Screens Post by Alejandra Martinez

A Dose of Integrity for Texas Criminal Justice

The Court of Criminal Appeals has created an Integrity Unit – but can the CCA really be part of the solution when it's so much a part of the problem?

"...parade of wrongfully convicted continues to march out of Texas' prisons: Thirty inmates have been exonerated by DNA since..."

June 27, 2008 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Texas Book Festival 2022

"...The 27th annual Texas Book Festival featured nearly 300 authors in conversations, book..."

Nov. 8, 2022 Photo Gallery

How Texas Wreaked Havoc on One Man's Journey to Citizenship

Living the American nightmare

"...Mejía was in Texas. He didn't know exactly where, but he had received..."

May 19, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

5th Circuit Affirms Ruling in Texas Prison Overheating Case

A lawsuit filed by six prisoners at the Wallace Pack Unit can now include the unit's full population

"...good news to the effort to get inmates in Texas' prison system living in less-than-extreme conditions on Friday, Aug...."

Aug. 25, 2017 News Feature by Chase Hoffberger

Austin at Large – Texas: Still Broken, Still Sad

Abbott stays one step ahead of the mob amid Lone Star and Uvalde fallout

"...reelection by fomenting chaos, uncertainty, and fear along the Texas-Mexico border. The panel of solid pros from The Texas..."

Sept. 30, 2022 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Texas Activists Rattle Cages Over Shabby Jails

Austin-based inmates' rights group hopes to shine daylight on inhumane conditions and mismanagement in county jails

"...With the Texas Youth Commission scandal and a damning U.S. Justice Department..."

Aug. 10, 2007 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Barnes: 'Take Back Texas'

The former Texas political star fires up local Democrats

"...It's taken nearly three decades, but former Texas Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes is slowly re-emerging into Lone..."

June 4, 2004 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Defending the Innocent in Texas

The Texas Center for Actual Innocence is open for business at the UT Law School

"...about how many more Ochoas there might be. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice houses over 126,000 inmates in..."

May 7, 2004 News Feature by Rita Radostitz

Rep. John Bucy III on the 86th Texas Legislature

“We’ve got to do everything we can to keep attention on Medicaid expansion”

"...Austin. Bucy is the president and founder of the Texas Charter School Academic & Athletic League (TCSAAL), and former..."

Jan. 4, 2019 News Feature by Michael King

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